Muted Sounds - Combat

This file removes all* combat sound files from the game so that you can clearly hear your addon sounds (and also boss speeches!).
I tried to filter out all boss emotes and speeches/events in this version. Mistakes may happen of course, but I'm quite happy with it.

Installation:Extract the .rar into /Data directly so that you have a /Data/Sound directory.

* Note:
It may not remove 100% of the combat sounds, especially if Blizzard decided to add a new spell or alter existing ones. Some sounds are pesky little buggers that hide somewhere else. If you identify them, let me know, and I will add them to this file.

This mod was inspired by silverwind's Bossmod Sound Fix (while game is muted). It does however not rely on files with zero byte content but on "real" muted valid sound files (ogg and wav). The zero byte sound files gave me problems while playing addon sounds, where half of them just didn't play.
I don't have this problem with valid files.

[r13]
- Added a few missing files.
- File now available again on WoWInterface

[r12]
- Updated to patch 4.3.2. There might a few bugs.
- File wasn't available on WoWInterface

[r11]
- Updated to patch 4.3 final

[r10]
- Updated to PTR patch 4.3

[r9]
- Removed Druid of the Flame death sounds
- Removed Druid of the Flame scorpion transformation sounds
- Removed various explosion-like sounds (exploding fireballs, jumping cats impacts and for whatever other spells they may used that)

Well, it matters that if you don't have any of the ogg files in the Sound folder, you'll hear most of the sound effects (except the bugged ones). It's just that the (additional and technically superflous) .wav files simply aren't harmful.

Normally, WoW should simply ignore any .wav files in the Sound folder, as .ogg files should always take precedence. The problem is that it doesn't work correctly for all files in patch 4.3.4.
But it doesn't hurt to have both file types there, no. I just wanted to keep the archive clean (and smaller) by sticking to the way 4.3.3 handled the files.

Do you the name of the new warlock shadowbolt sounds introduced in 4.3?

Been trying to find it for awhile.

I have no idea for that sound file, it doesn't seem to be a new file alltogether but rather a simply a changed file. At least I can't find any file with that name in the files added in 4.3.

Your best bet is probably to install the "muted - all" version, enter the game as a warlock (or have a warlock buddy), go to a place without other players near and use a tool like Process Monitor to observe the files accesses by the WoW executable when you're casting Shadowbolt.
At least that's how I did it for spells I couldn't identify.

Hey, I'm trying to get it to only play sounds that my character makes, and I've found the names for most of the sound files that a Night Elf Feral Druid Cat uses, but I can't find a few. Do you know the name of the sound file for Shred and Faerie Fire (Feral)?

Is there any chance you know of a version of this that doesn't mute player emotes?

I'm quite fond of those, I really just want the combat sounds muted and nothing else.

The emotes are in \Data\Sound\Character\, separated into the different races.
The names are pretty descriptive there, so you should have no problem to find the specific sounds you want.
Then just delete the muted sounds in these folders.

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